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    Desmond Pucket and the Mountain Full of Monsters
    Desmond Pucket and the Mountain Full of Monsters
    Desmond Pucket and the Mountain Full of Monsters
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    Desmond Pucket and the Mountain Full of Monsters

    By Mark Tatulli

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    Desmond Pucket is back, and this time he has a posse.

    Desmond has been waiting his whole life for this day. It is the sixth-grade field trip to Crab Shell Pier, home to the world's most awesomely fantastic ride, and Desmond has one goal: convince Tina Schimsky to ride it with him. But once inside the amusement park, Desmond finds that executing his master plan will be no simple feat. Accompanied by his best friend Ricky, Desmond must outwit both the tyrannical Mr. Needles and his nefarious mortal enemy Scott Selzer, along with anyone---or anything---else in the way. The race is on to reach Mountain Full of Monsters and win the girl of his dreams . . . Can Desmond do it?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAndrews McMeel Publishing
    Release dateAug 5, 2014
    ISBN9781449451738
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      Desmond Pucket loves monsters. I mean LOVES them with a capital L. And now his dream is about to come true...to go to Shell Pier and ride the best ride in the world! And he wants to convince Tina Schimsky to ride it with him. But he’ll have to outwit his mortal enemy Mr. Needles to make it happen! And he’ll have to save his favorite ride as well before it disappears! Can Desmond do it? Will Tina go on the ride with him? Will Ricky help him outwit Mr. Needles? Only time will tell, so buckle up for a ride with Desmond and the monsters!I somehow missed out on the first Desmond book, but I’ve long been a fan of Mark Tatulli’s Lio and Heart of the City comics so I had no qualms about reading Desmond. Written in the style of Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Mark brings his signature charm of Lio and Heart to a new audience, crafting a character that is...well basically Lio grown up a bit. It’s a different character to be sure, but the similarities are much the same. Either way, this is a fun and enjoyable ride of early middle school boys that are looking for a character that isn’t into sports and likes, well monsters and nerdom. This is the perfect book for that crowd and is well worth worth picking up if you know someone that age that likes monsters. I give the book 3.5 out of 5 stars

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    Desmond Pucket and the Mountain Full of Monsters - Mark Tatulli

    1 the fog of desmond

    Something’s wrong.

    You know that kind of wrong, like when you put your underpants on backwards by mistake: everything looks like it’s supposed to, but something just doesn’t feel right.

    I sit up, reach over to my bedside table, and grab my official limited-edition Ray Harryhausen Jason and the Argonauts saber-skeleton talking alarm clock.

    . . . and how can it be light outside if it’s the middle of the night!

    Then I notice the skeleton isn’t making his usual chattering teeth sound. And he’s not crazily swinging his sabers in his typical skeletonly way. In fact, it’s like he’s dead.

    OK, right, a dead skeleton is a normal skeleton. But in this case it’s making me nervous.

    I spring out of bed and bolt over to my bulletin board. I begin tearing through the billion-and-two scraps of paper and ideas that are tacked to every bit of empty cork board space.

    Mom bought me this bulletin board so I would stop leaving little ideas and cartoons all over my desk. Now I just pin them all over my wall.

    Eventually I find the old brochure that I’m looking for . . .

    . . . but most important, the Post-it note that’s stuck to the bottom.

    Today is May twenty-fifth, I say out loud. But what time is it?!

    I dig through the mounds of plastic fangs, rubber spiders, and tubes of fake blood in my top desk drawer and find my official 60th anniversary Creature from the Black Lagoon commemorative wristwatch. I pop open the cover.

    Hot dog! I still have five minutes!

    I get dressed with lightning speed, fly down the stairs without touching a single step, and spring out the front door! The walk to Cloverfield Memorial Junior High is usually long, but today I run it in record time. And I know I’m safe when I see my class waiting at the curb for the bus. I race up to Ricky DiMarco, trying to catch my breath.

    Yes, that’s right . . . no pants. All alone in my tighty whities. In front of the entire sixth grade class.

    Sheila Cutter screams and slips into a witch-like cackle. Scott Seltzer laughs so hard that an entire Sour Patch Kid candy flies out of his nose. And everybody, yes, everybody, pulls out their cell phones . . .

    . . . and starts making the viral video of the century. Even Tina Schimsky, the love of my life and dream girl extraordinaire, who adds her own blow-by-blow commentary.

    2 go time

    A stupid dream.

    My Jason and the Argonauts skeleton clock is still clattering away, just like always. The alarm will go off on time. I won’t run out of the house in just my underpants. And I won’t miss the sixth grade trip to Crab Shell Pier. Or the Mountain Full of Monsters ride, which basically I’ve been waiting for my whole life.

    I know! This is a good chance to go over the plan!

    I walk across my bed, jump into my thinking chair, and pop on my desk lamp. And, of course, I pull out my giant spiral notebook of scary effects and gross ideas . . .

    I look at step 3. The note. The note that I carefully wrote the day I

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